7:32 PM, Monday January 4th 2021
Your organic forms are definitely moving in the right direction, and will continue to improve with practice.
While there are issues I will not address until you are finished your full revisions, I will point out a few things to keep in mind as you complete the other three:
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Draw bigger. There's loads of room all around your drawing that could have been employed. Purposely giving a drawing less room than it requires is a common cause for stiffer linework (since it becomes harder to engage our whole arm while drawing), and also it severely limits your ability to think through spatial problems. Both of these factors result in clumsier linework, and drawing bigger will help resolve this.
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Don't cut off forms when they're overlapped by another. Draw each and every form in its entirety - so for example, you tend to cut off forms where they connect to the body. Let them interpenetrate, then use a contour line to help define where they intersect.
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You're using line weight in ways it really shouldn't be used. Line weight exists only to very subtly add variation to the thickness of a line (not big heavy changes, just slight shifts) to help clarify how one form overlaps another. It should not be added to the entire length of a line, just to a small localized area. Furthermore, it should not be added by chicken-scratching as you trace over an existing line. It should be added using the ghosting method. All things considered, I think you should leave line weight out entirely for now, just to focus on a more limited number of problems at once.
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Similarly to the previous point, filled areas of solid black should be reserved only for cast shadows. Don't confuse them with line weight (line weight runs along the silhouette of existing forms, cast shadows are projected from one form onto another surface, meaning you have to be keenly aware of the relationship between the two forms. If you see something has a black 'local colour' (the colour of the surface/material itself, like in the case of the shrimp's eye), do not fill it in. Treat everything as though it is made with the same flat white material.
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Keep working on adhering to the sausage method when constructing legs - stick to simple sausage structures, and reinforce the joint between them with a contour line. Drawing bigger will help with this as well.
Next Steps:
Continue with your revisions, and do not submit more work until the requested pages are completely finished.